Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Chevelle “haven’t made any money” from the six million albums they’ve sold
nme.comChevelle have sold over six million albums, but according to the band’s frontman they “haven’t made any money” from the sales of their music.The band recently dropped their ninth studio effort, ‘NIRATIAS’, which fulfils their contract with Epic Records.
However, Chevelle are wary about entering into any new record deals, according to Pete Loeffler.Speaking in a new interview with The KiddChris Show on Cincinnati’s WEBN radio, the frontman opened up about Chevelle’s finances.“Contracts are a bitch, and we’ve signed some raw ones,” the singer-guitarist said. “And we need to start trying to make some money off of our catalogue, which is 10 albums deep, plus all the side stuff.
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